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Eat this: Pop Up Pizza at the Plaza

Pop Up Pizza partner and chef Michael Vakneen (photos by Justin Yurkanin)

Ever since the Plaza Hotel and Casino reopened in September with trendy restaurants and swanky new furniture, I have actively encouraged people to call it the Plasmo. Why? Because the refurbished downtown establishment opened on the heels of the Cosmopolitan and appeared to be [...]

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Updated 9:32 PM, 5/15/12
The music man moves on

Web guru and Greenspun Interactive editor Rob Curley is officially leaving the Las Vegas Sun. He joined the company in 2008, after riding a professional juggernaut all the way from Lawrence, Kansas to the Washington Post. He is best-known as an evangelist of “hyperlocal” journalism that focused on things like high school football and restaurant [...]

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Updated 6:27 PM, 5/15/12
‘The Dictator’: Cohen’s childish, racist shtick

Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Dictator"

In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a fish out of water, acclimating himself to American culture and offending everyone in sight while he does it. You could begin that sentence with, “In Borat,” or “In Bruno,” and not make any other changes. Therein lies the problem with The Dictator: [...]

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Updated 10:41 AM, 5/15/12
Various Thigs & Stuff
Out with the old, in with the new

Today marks a big change in the blog world, readers: We are closing down Various Things & Stuff and starting up an all-new blog, called SlashPolitics.com.
Don’t fret: You’ll still get all the blogging you’ve come to expect from us at Various Things & Stuff, although we will be losing the royal “we,” along with the [...]

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Updated 11:30 AM, 1/11/10
‘The Response’ gets nod for Oscar vote

The Response, a short film about a panel of military judges weighing the guilt or innocence of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has been selected as one of 10 short films to advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. We featured this riveting movie in CityLife back in October, shortly after it [...]

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Updated 10:38 AM, 1/10/10
Las Vegas monorail: ‘A mess’

The Las Vegas monorail has consistently disappointed when it comes to meeting its revenue and ridership projections.
The Las Vegas monorail is “a mess” in terms of its flagging ability to repay its debts. It seems overly optimistic ridership and revenue projections are the culprit, but there’s a lot more detail in this story by Dan [...]

Updated 10:23 AM, 1/10/10